{"id":3512,"date":"2009-02-19T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2009-02-19T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T11:10:37","slug":"mic-elections-on-april-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/02\/19\/mic-elections-on-april-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC Elections on April 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/98649\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a>today that the presidential election will be held on April 12th, which days before the Hindu New Year and barely a week after the two by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the only challenger to Samy Vellu is Muthupalaniappan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MIC&#8217;s all-powerful central working committee (CWC) today decided that the party&#8217;s presidential elections will be held in April.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference this afternoon, MIC president S Samy Vellu announced that nomination will be on March 22 and polling on April 12.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran politician is expected to defend the post which he has been holding since 1979.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he would contest on April 12, he jokingly replied: &#8220;Maybe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The elections for the other positions have yet to be fixed but observers believe they will be held between June and September this year.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Vellu denied suggestions that the presidential polls were intentionally being timed after the Bukit Selambau by-election, saying the party was acting in accordance to its constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three months before the expiry of the position of president, the party must call for an election,&#8221; said Samy, adding that his term officially expires on May 26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIC announced today that the presidential election will be held on April 12th, which days before the Hindu New Year and barely a week after the two by-elections. So far, the only challenger to Samy Vellu is Muthupalaniappan. MIC&#8217;s all-powerful central working committee (CWC) today decided that the party&#8217;s presidential elections will be held in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,225],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}